Andyman33

just checked the water...still with ZERO FC on the stick -- btw I tested it in a bucket and the strip definitely changes when chlorine is in there. Do I just put in more chlorine or do I need to wait until morning? Also should I only add chlorine at night? Should I add the CYA prior to any more chlorine? Or is best bet to just pump out a bunch of water and refill...thanks

I've been reading here for about 2 days now -- looking about how you are advising others to get the water straight and have made a few changes etc, but we are still with a cloudy pool (VERY) and I am hoping for some advice. First of all, the pool is 16k gallons inground fiberglass vinyl liner. It has a nature2 in addition to sand filter (although the nature2 is not active at this point). The pool was at an unoccupied house in Wisconsin and wasn't first opened until friday of 4th of july weekend...so we are definitely behind the 8-ball. I already have ordered the taylor 2006 testing kit but for now I have test strips to test free chlorine and hth's 6 way kit. When we got to the house, there was no chlorine in the system (not sure how long but I do know they used the pool for about a week from july 4-11 or so)...that is what I'm starting with. Initially when tested ph 8, TC 0, TA 200, CYA 0. I have strips and FC was also zero on that. I since have added acid trying to get the TA down as well as the pH, and also have added chlorine (both the tabs in my feeder and 4 bottles of shock (aka sodium hypochlorite 10%) and TA is now 180 ph 7.5, TC 4, CYA undetectable but the strips still show FC zero. SO....I have also been using poolcalculator.com and I also learned that unscented bleach was just as good but its only 6%...told me to add 330 mL's of 6% hypochlorite...which I have done. So now the question is this --- do I add CYA so that the chlorine stays around (it is like 96 degrees all this week)? Do I work on the TA? Do I give it 48 hours with this chlorine that I just put in? Or do I pump out a bunch and put in a bunch of "fresh"(our city softens the water for us, will that matter?) Thanks for everything -- just want a CLEAR pool Can't even barely see the last step!!!

What you may be hearing is the recirc pump.This will run 24/7.And as far as temp being hotter then what is set for is normal for this time of year Thats a Master branded spa and I'm almost sure it doesn't use a circ pump but uses the main pump for filtering and recirculation during heating so it should only be on about 4 to 6 hrs per day, not 24. The water may be that hot due to outside temp but it'll also get that hot from the pump running 24/7 and you'll also feel it when the bill comes. Maybe the issue is with the filter settings, I'd start with the manual or I'd call Master's Customer Service and ask for help and if no luck there I'd see if they have a dealer nearby. http://www.legacywhirlpool.com/pages/Customer_Support.html Actually did just that and called the place where it was purchased. I clicked it off at the gfi as suggested then let it go through the restart an now it's only going twice a day for a fee hours each time!!

Ok, so we just moved into our new house (in wisconsin) and we have an amazing new spa (and pool but hopefully I can get some ??'s answered in the other forum about that). In any case I don't really know much about taking care of it ... I have learned quickly about taking care of the water, we are using bromine tabs in the spa. The spa is a Legacy Intrepid 7-8 person 485 gallon 2 pump system. The biggest thing I am noticing is that there is ALWAYS a pump on...is that normal? Also the temperature is right now set at about 100 but the water temp is usually above that...(103 right now). Is that solely because it is extra hot out (90's here recently)? Any advice? Would love some help! Thanks